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Definition of Huddled
1. Adjective. Crowded or massed together. "The huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind"
Definition of Huddled
1. Verb. (past of huddle) ¹
2. Adjective. crowded together in a huddle ¹
3. Adjective. crouched ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Huddled
1. huddle [v] - See also: huddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huddled
Literary usage of Huddled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... huddled the cloak round her back, on which were embroidered the letters PEIN ....
ROSAL . . . and then came a great rent. ..."
2. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"A chill, raw wind was blowing, and these creatures huddled there in their rags,
sleeping for the most part, or trying to sleep. Here were a dozen women, ..."
3. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"The great, wild, mysterious Borrow—Her skeleton, huddled, dry, and awful —"Ma'am,
you expose yourself!"—Plane, spokeshave, gouge, and chisel—"I — passed ..."
4. Harriet, the Moses of Her People by Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1886)
"They reached the house, and leaving her party huddled together in the middle of
the street, in a pouring rain, Harriet went to the door, ..."
5. The Criminal Prisons of London, and Scenes of Prison Life by Henry Mayhew, John Binny (1862)
"huddled in his brown rug upon the ground, for there are no hammocks allowed in
this cell, he darkens the place once more and proceeds to the second. ..."
6. The United States of North America as They are: Not as They are Generally by Thomas Brothers (1840)
"Who but must read with horror and disgust the astounding fact of fifty-five
families, containing two hundred and fifty-three individuals, huddled together ..."
7. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"All of these were huddled. The proctor generally asked some question such as Quid
sit nomen to which the answer usually expected was Nescio. ..."
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